Charles E. Nash Quotes

d. 1913

Charles Edmund Nash (23 May 1844 – 21 June 1913) was an American politician who served a single two-year term as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He was Louisiana's first African American Congressman and would remain the state's only black U.S.

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America will not die. As the time demands them, great men will appear, and by their combined efforts render liberty and happiness more secure. The people will be ready and answer in every emergency that may arise.

Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)

For we are not enemies, but brethren.

Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)

A government which cannot protect its humblest citizens from outrage and injury is unworthy of the name and ought not to command the support of a free people.

Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)

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